Our Consul in Havana (2019)
The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba, when still a Spanish colony. Eça de Queiroz struggles against local authorities in his defense of Chinese workers, brought to the sugar plantations by greedy middlemen and exploited as slaves. Two parallel stories unfold, that of a Chinese girl which Eça de Queiroz saves from the clutches of one of the island’s most powerful slave owners, and the other of a romance involving a young American woman on holidays in Havana.
- Released
- 2019-07-17
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Francisco Manso
Cast
- Elmano Sancho as Eça de Queiroz
- Mafalda Banquart as Mollie Bidwell
- Luísa Cruz as Mary Bidwell
- Rodrigo Santos as Torradellas
- Jorge Pinto as General Bidwell
- Pedro Frias as Sanchez Morales
- António Capelo as Blas
- Joana Carvalho as D. Antónia
- Joaquim Nicolau as Esteves
- João Lagarto as Andrade Corvo
- José Eduardo as Paco
- Ivo Arroja as Juan